Primary Care Liaison Nurse

Louder Than Words; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in health services seeks a Primary Liaison Nurse to enhance care for adults with learning disabilities in Plymouth. The nurse will train staff, promote health checks, and support GP practices, ensuring that the health needs of this community are met effectively. The successful candidate will be a registered nurse with experience in primary care and a passion for improving health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with a comprehensive understanding of learning disabilities.
• Experience in primary care and health promotion roles is essential.
• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding policies is required.

Responsibilities

• Support the provision of annual health checks for adults with learning disabilities.
• Train primary care staff in delivering care and understanding health needs.
• Promote healthy lifestyles and develop accessible health materials.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Leadership

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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The Primary Liaison Nurse will work across all health centres / practices in Plymouth, enhancing the ability of them providing and meeting the health needs of the learning disability adult. Promote a broader understanding of the health and social needs of people with learning disabilities and their right to effective services and health care. The liaison nurse will support GP practices to provide annual health checks to adults with learning disabilities as defined in the Directed Enhance Service (DES) Learning Disabilities. Through supporting practice nurses and GPs offering health checks, ensuring the health needs are clearly identified in GP records The liaison nurse is to provide DES learning disabilities training to practices undertaking the DES and set up systems for a rolling programme ensuring all relevant primary care staff are trained to work with people with learning disabilities and have the skills to deliver care for them Primary liaison nurse to provide an advisory role to each individual practice.

To increase awareness and promote mainstream services for LD population Promoting Primary Care staff attendance to Learning Disability education provision To promote healthy lifestyles through the provision of accessible health promotion materials through delivering health promotion groups to people with learning disabilities based on identified needs and priorities identified by DoH To increase understanding, within Primary Care of the health needs of people with learning disabilities. Promote health through empowering service users to make informed choices about their health needs and the treatment and care they receive to increase access to mainstream services Work flexibly across services for people with learning disabilities and at the interface between primary, public health care services and secondary Enable everyone involved in the care and support of people with learning disabilities to acquire and maintain the attitudes and values necessary to improve health and social cohesion To maintain and extend own professional competence and sustain authority and professional expertise through practice and continuing professional development Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the health needs of people with learning disabilities and apply skills Assists with particular reference to specialist consent advice, in the development of standards and guidelines for optimal nursing and medical care To lead the development of care pathways into mainstream services, addressing national health targets To identify and lead the development and delivery of health education/promotion for people with LD inline with generic services Support and advice GP surgeries on Best Interests and Capacity assessments in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act. To support professionals with problematic practice issues such as venepuncture, desensitisation & cancer screening 5.1. Managerial To organise, prioritise and manage own time in relation to the needs of the practice registers and offering health action planning To act as a role model within the speciality field The post holder may have a delegated health action planning caseload working as part of a primary care team supporting individual GP practices offering health action plans Support the provision of effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team, carers, parents and person with a learning disability accessing mainstream services Assist in ensuring the safety of the department, and the risk management process by actively participating in clinical audit, clinical risk and quality issues, including the managing and reporting of incidents To contribute to the setting and monitoring of standards and quality of care To contribute to the appraisal process The have good knowledge and understanding of the Plymouth NHS Safeguarding Adults Policies, Safeguarding Childrens Protection Policies, Deprivation of Liberty and Mental Capacity Act 5.2.

Communication and Working Relationships To promote active participation of service users and their families/carers in the healthcare process, working within the public patient involvement agenda To assist in the development and monitoring of local standards in partnership with people with learning disabilities, patient and liaison service (PALS) and carers group Liaise with other healthcare professionals to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the Local Health Community as required to ensure good team working and collaborative working practices in particular primary care teams, public health and community learning disability team to ensure the learning disability clients obtain the appropriate support and access to services Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team To undertake benchmarking against recognised national standards Assist clinical areas in recognised potential barriers to primary access and other communication issues in relations to individuals with learning disabilities, and provide advice and support as required Act as a mentor to students and colleagues, participating in induction programmes, guiding practice, and assessing competence to develop staff 5.3. Professional Development responsibilities Carries out and evaluates Audit and/or Research and Development into Accessing Mainstream health services for people with learning disabilities and into selected aspects of primary care which is compatible with and advances the aims of the Plymouth strategic learning disabilities health care targets To participate in regular clinical supervision sessions in order to receive professional support and time to reflect upon practice Ensure that full and complete nursing records are maintained in accordance to NMC standards Pursues a programme of continuous education in line with needs of the Directorate and current requirements of the NMC. To meet PREP requirements, identifying own learning needs and ensure own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments Updates professional knowledge through the attendance at meetings of specialist professional associates and relevant conferences To ensure that own clinical and theoretical skills are maintained and ensure awareness of current developments particularly those relating to current role 5.4. Education and Training responsibilities To develop programmes of education and training for all health professional and disciplines of staff, both formally and informally, on the health needs of people with learning disabilities To develop a rolling training programme and resources for people with learning disabilities, their carers and all local mainstream NHS services to ensure To co-ordinate the development of accessible easy to read health materials with colleagues from Plymouth LD Partnership, Self Advocacy groups and Carers to support individual practices/primary care teams Advises staff on health action planning and communication when supporting a patient with learning disabilities accessing health services To participate in Mandatory training and Induction Programmes

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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